I'm an IT admin starting to look at building a SAN for my company and I'm curious if anyone out there can explain how some of the popular RAID vendors (i.e. EMC, Chaparral, Infortrend) handle failover (resuming I/O with another RAID controller after one has failed)? I'm mostly interested in...

I've got a Seagate HD which seems to have been the victim of a power surge and now the PC will not even spin the fan if it's connected. Something to do with the safety cut-out on the mainboard to stop damage. Is there any smart workaround to recover any data from this disk? As I cannot get the...

"Adam" wrote in message news:... After more testing, it turns out that the primary slave HDD (ST380021A) may have gone bad. My system was able to boot with the following: HDD (PriMastr): Seagate Barracuda ATA IV - ST340016A - ATA100 - 40 GB - 7200 RPM HDD...

In some newsgroup, perhaps it was this one a fellow mentioned that Western Digital special edition drives have been recently changed to a lighter (cheaper) construction, may be basically the same as their lower cost ones only with 8 mb cache and he feels are less reliable. I have always used WD...

From the specs listed at the WDC website and on the spec sheets, these drives are identical in every respect except that the case is slightly different in appearance (although the dimensions are the same, to the millimeter). The WDC800B005 (aka WD800B005RNN) is listed as a Series I drive and the...

My floppy controller on my FIC P4-865PE MAX motherboard quit working and I don't want to change boards so I was thinking about getting a USB floppy drive but I don't know anything about them so I don't know if you can put in a bootable disk and boot with it? Will it take drive letter A: like a...

KEYWORDS: IBM Hard Drive 33GB 32.83GB 82.3GB FDisk Windows XP NTFS FAT32 work full capacity maximum limitation jumpers Hi everyone, I read a bunch of these newsgroups for the last couple days and have spent several hours trying to fix my problem with no luck. Finally after rereading some of the...

I am planning to upgrade my self-built system to add two new IDE drives. I currently have a DVD-ROM as the Primary Master and my hard drive is the Secondary Master; and I want to add a zip drive and a CD-RW drive. I have been perusing Scott Mueller's _Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 13th ed._, and on...

I Need to return it for new drive,. this one fialed, can't acces my files because I get system lockups, and the drive is make noise. Is there any way to get access to my files maybe, so I can back up. I have to send the damn drive back with files on it.. is there a way to WIPEOUT the files on the...

Hello everybody, I recently purchased a 120 GB Maxtor HDD to use it in combination with my actual Western Digital one. The WD disk has got two partitions, C: (containing the OS) and E: (this is an extended partition). The new Maxtor disk only contains one primary partition, D:. Both of the disks...

my latest computer tech split town and left me hanging out to dry. both computers are amd 450 with 30 gig western didgital drives( sorry cant spell) both systems run xp and worked fine just wanted new cases a power supplys moved motherboards and hardware with no problems bios see's harddrive but...

I just got a 250GB WD drive that I'm thinking to use as the boot disk. I have two other physical disks with 60 GM each which I intend to use for data. My question is what is the optimal partition size for a 250 GB drive for the best performance under WinXP? Is there a performance issue if I leave...

I don't mean a one that frequently speeds up and down during normal operation but one that can be programmed for 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM operation, much the way head seek speed can be programmed. I realize that changing the speed would probably require losing all the data, but some people don't need...

When I tried to reinstall XP, the install program failed with a blue screen error "UMOUNTABLE something." I then noticed the partition table was corrupted. I tried fixing with "EDITPART" and verified the partitions with "FINDPART." There are multiple partitions on this disk. The problem is: XP...

I installed some updates from Microsoft last night and rebooted and came up with this error: TRAP 0000000D ============== GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT =================== tr=0028 cr0=00000011 cr2=00000000 cr3=00000000 gdt limit=03FF base=00017000 idt limit=07FF base=00017400

I'm considering future storage options for a growing local digital photography studio. The network would consist of three or four similarly configured (cloned) workstation computers that would store thier own operating sytem, program (Photoshop, ACDSee, Cumulus, POS, database etc..), and...

I was advised that in addition to fdisking and formating a hard disk drive I should do the following, then fdisk and format again. Are the following instructions a sure-fire way of erasing data? Many thanks. ----- Enter the following lines at the debug prompt (-) followed by the enter key. Note:...

Hi folks, I have to write a Visual Basic 6.0 Program and need to uniquely identify a computer in a network and the user mustn't be able to change that id while my program is running. So the Volume Serial Number of the HDD isn't a possibility, because you can set the Volume SN whatever you want and...

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Hello. To make a long story short, I was 'tricked' into purchasing an external harddrive which amounted to just an ibm 120GB harddrive put into a cheap no name brand third party casing. (It was cheap, so I guess I got what I deserved.) Well, the third party casing is huge, and loud. And I want...